Reviews tagging 'Grief'

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

26 reviews

cyluho's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Animal cruelty

bluejay21's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

foxwish's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Grief, and Death of parent

taural41's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

abi_sarah's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Very much enjoyed this book! 

It felt so genuine and full of raw emotion throughout. Helen’s writing about her experiences of raising/ training a Goshawk whilst going through grief and depression was so refreshing to read, because there wasn’t any big underlying philosophical meaning. It was just a honest account of a woman’s difficult period of her life and how she coped. 

I want to read more books like this, I loved visualising myself out and about with Helen and Mabel (the goshawk) just living and being.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

katiemccreary's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

wordswithjustine's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

As a fan of The Once and Future King and nature writing and as someone whose dad died less than 2 months ago, this was the right book at the right time for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, and Death of parent

As a bit of a T.H. White fan because of The Once and Future King, I was disturbed to learn many challenging things about him that I never knew before. It was interesting, but not always in a good way for me.

mandkips's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Animal cruelty, and Death

Minor: Blood

youngsk's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Death of parent, and Homophobia

ehmannky's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

It's weird because there's so much going on in this book and I feel like it shouldn't really work as well as it does. Because it's about falconry, it's about T.H. White, it's about goshawks and creating a bond with nature that is respectful, it's about one woman's specific journey to coping with the sudden and traumatic loss of her father. And it shouldn't work, but the overarching theme of grief really just ties everything together. 

There were parts (especially some of the falconry parts) where I felt myself just sort of skimming, but then they'd be followed by moments of grief I felt were so relatable that I had to put my book down for a moment before I could continue reading. It's a lovely book, and I recommend it to others who are grieving but are put off by the overwhelmingly Christian religious grief-coping books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Death of parent